Profile
 

Michele Potestà is a partner at Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, where he specializes in international commercial and investment arbitration, as well as public international law. Over the past ten years, Michele has participated in over 35 international investment and commercial arbitrations as counsel, arbitrator and secretary of the tribunal.

Michele has advised sovereign states on their investment treaty programs and currently acts as expert advisor to the Swiss Government in the inter-State negotiations on the reform of investor-state dispute settlement (“ISDS”) in UNCITRAL’s Working Group III.

Michele is also part of the faculty at the Geneva LLM in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS), for which he teaches investment arbitration, and a senior researcher at the Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement (CIDS) where he co-leads a research project on the reform of ISDS.

Michele holds a Ph.D., a bachelor and a master’s degree from the University of Milan.